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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
Max Beerbohm
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Max Beerbohm
Age: 83 †
Born: 1872
Born: August 24
Died: 1956
Died: May 20
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Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
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Death cancels all engagements.
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The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
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In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
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Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.
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